The Entertainer has enjoyed another record Christmas, recording a like-for-like sales increase of 9.5 per cent in the five weeks to December 29th. The specialist toy chain told Retail Week that it maintained margins as total sales boomed ...
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Dr Gareth Jones,Gary Gould and Dr David Hardman of the Birmingham Science Park LUX-TSI,the accredited laboratory services company,has secured£430,000 of investment to expand facilities at its Birmingham operations and at its ...
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Investment firm Behrman Capital’s portfolio company, ILC Dover has acquired industrial packaging products and environmental safety products producer in the US, Grayling Industries for an undisclosed sum. Grayling will operate as a ...
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Dr Gareth Jones,Gary Gould and Dr David Hardman of the Birmingham Science Park LUX-TSI,the accredited laboratory services company,has secured£430,000 of investment to expand facilities at its Birmingham operations and at its ...
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USA - The Long Reach Long Riders have confirmed the route for their 10th annual charity motorcycle ride. The rolling landscapes, deep forests and huge water of the upper midwest will serve as the backdrop for the 2013 version of the LRLR ...
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Tenowo Lincolnton Inc. — a Lincolnton, N.C.-based manufacturer of functional and decorative nonwovens for automotive, industrial and apparel applications — will invest $7.2 million over the next three years to expand its ...
Montreal-based branded basic apparel manufacturer Gildan Activewear Inc. has finalized the acquisition of CanAm Yarns LLC (CanAm) — its 50-percent-owned yarn-spinning joint venture (JV) with Frontier Spinning Mills Inc., Sanford, N.C. ...
Popular micro-blogging website Twitter could be valued at $11 billion if it goes public in 2014, according to a report by specialist financial researchers Greencrest Capital. This would suggest that the company has regained value that was ...
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Shanghai based SAIC Motor Corp China's largest publicly traded automaker reported it sold 4.49 million vehicles last year, a 12% increase from 2011. The figure includes 1.39 million units sold by Shanghai General Motors and 1.28 million ...
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A SightLogix®smart thermal video analytics system has been chosen for deployment at the Jacksonville,Florida Port Authority(JAXPORT)in a project partially funded by a Homeland Security Grant initiative to enhance security at port ...
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Founded in 1911,StandardAero is one of the world's largest independent aviation service businesses.StandardAero specialises in maintenance,repair and overhaul for commercial,air transport,military,business and general aviation,industrial ...
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Global steel production will fall over the next 12 months because of current overcapacity and the slowdown in the Chinese economy says Coface. The experts in assessing business sector credit risks have published a report on the challenges ...
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Surprise acquisitions,top level exec changes,retail casualties and the London 2012 effect,the continued dominance of LEGO and Moshi Monsters in-store–not to mention some eye-watering charity challenges…the toy business has ...
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Business Standard reported that the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has rapped the Karnataka government for its failure to initiate any time-bound action plan to monitor the implementation of the Karnataka Mineral Policy 2008. ...
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REI has awarded a $100,000 grant to the Bikes Belong Foundation to expand its Green Lane Project. The Green Lane Project is in six focus cities – Austin, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Memphis, Tennessee; Portland, Oregon; San Francisco, ...
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